VB Forum / General 2 / December 2003

During testing of a VB6 application written by me I stumbled on the
following mystery:
During startup of this VB6 application some users get the message:
pls. insert the office 2000 cd. However there is no relation between

I have a laptop connected to a robot via the serial port. (using the mscomm
ocx) I Can click on a button to send a command to get info from the bot, and
the info comes right back. However if I have code send the command, then
loop waiting on the response I never get the response. ...

hi all i got problem
i got txt file with tab :
123    143    145
43    32    21

I made a program where wav files will be played from the database, with the
full path.LIKE
i = mciSendstring(open d:\sound.wav type waveaudio",0&,0,0)
i = mciSendstring(play d:\sound.wav ",0&,0,0)

Hi Group.
I'm currently writing a timeclock program for a client in VB6. The employee
will scan several  Code 39 barcodes, each into a text box that has the
focus. So far, so good, but I need to trigger a LostFocus (or ???) event so

Hi Group,
I'm writing a time clock program for a client in VB6. The employee will scan
several barcodes, each into a specific text box while the box has focus. My
problem is to have any scan (Code 39) trigger the LostFocus ( or ???) event

I have a form, with two control arrays (a checkbox, and a label to go
with it)
along with some other control buttons. When the form loads, it will
add the checkboxes and labels(autoresize = true)below the previous

I don't know if this is the best place to post this question because
its more of a VB script question.  I was wondering if there is any
function that opens a file with exclusive flag or any function that
checks if file is currently open by another program.  This is for a

I use a textbox control to add/edit names in a database. If user enters a character like ÿ it displays fine and saves to the database correctly. However, when retrieving the text back into the textbox, it displays the wrong character (i.e. the | character). This seems to be only ...

Dear Friends,
I am developing an application in Visual Basic 6. I want this
application to wake up automatically as soon as the user connects to
Internet. An example of this is MSN Messenger. So I want my

Using the webbrowser control, if the webpage that I navigate to has a
button,  how do I programmatically "push the button" and go to that
page?  I thought of right clicking on the button and getting the URL
link but since this is a site that I must enter via username and

when a modal form2 is called by a popupmenu on form1, the popupmenu of the
new form2 doesn't work
is it a bug ?
please help

I have an ado control with an access dbase and i want to make a button that
when its clicked a specified wav or mp3 file will be played in accordance
with each record  on the access database. Does anyone know how do do this?
Jeroen

I have an ado control with an access dbase and i want to make a button that
when its clicked a specified wav or mp3 file will be played in accordance
with each record  on the access database. Does anyone know how do do this?
Jeroen

when a modal form2 is called by a popupmenu on form1, the popupmenu of the
new form2 doesn't work
is it a bug ?
please help